WASHINGTON, NJ—When Sheldon Good & Company's auctioneer drops the hammer on the sale of Horse Sleigh Farm, a 154-acre working farm and family attraction in Washington, NJ, on April 2, the firm expects the sale price to exceed the minimum bid of $1.5 million, principal auctioneer and project manager Jonathan Cuticelli tells GlobeSt.com exclusively.
Horse Sleigh Farm is a family-owned working farm that features a corn maze, hayrides, a petting zoo and a farmers market in season.
“It is a working farm,” Cuticelli says. “The current owner of the property was in the sign printing business before he went into farming.” He decided to leave the printing business and after a conversation with his wife in which she expressed a love for horses, they purchased the farm from Warren County, adding horses, chicken, sheep, and even water buffalo to the property.
The couple added a pumpkin patch, a hayride (haunted during the Halloween season), and a corn maze, Cuticelli says, but the family's next generation has moved on to other careers and is not interested in operating the farm.
“We have been conducting weekly site inspections,” Cuticelli says. “I have a couple of interested parties, but until the day of the auction when they show up waving that check in their hands, time will tell. Every auction is wildly different.”
Cuticelli says he believes whoever the buyer is will continue to operate the farm, because the land is restricted from other kinds of development.
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Steve Lubetkin
Steve Lubetkin is the New Jersey and Philadelphia editor for GlobeSt.com. He is currently filling in covering Chicago and Midwest markets until a new permanent editor is named. He previously filled in covering Atlanta. Steve’s journalism background includes print and broadcast reporting for NJ news organizations. His audio and video work for GlobeSt.com has been honored by the Garden State Journalists Association, and he has also been recognized for video by the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has produced audio podcasts on CRE topics for the NAR Commercial Division and the CCIM Institute. Steve has also served (from August 2017 to March 2018) as national broadcast news correspondent for CEOReport.com, a news website focused on practical advice for senior executives in small- and medium-sized companies. Steve also reports on-camera and covers conferences for NJSpotlight.com, a public policy news coverage website focused on New Jersey government and industry; and for clients of StateBroadcastNews.com, a division of The Lubetkin Media Companies LLC. Steve has been the computer columnist for the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, since 1996. Steve is co-author, with Toronto-based podcasting pioneer Donna Papacosta, of the book, The Business of Podcasting: How to Take Your Podcasting Passion from the Personal to the Professional. You can email Steve at [email protected].
